The move to stop the traditional last meal came after convicted killer Russell Brewer requested an audacious meal – and then didn't eat a bite.

"Enough is enough," Texas state Sen. John Whitmire said, a day after Brewer's snub. "It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege -- one which the perpetrator did not provide to their victim."

The last meals were halted by Texas prison officials the next day.

But Price, who cooked 189 last meals during his time in prison where he served 14 years for assault, said that shouldn't end the last bit of compassion for a prisoner who is going to die.

Despite the horrific crimes some of the condemned prisoners had committed, he said the last meal had shown a bit of compassion and humanity from both sides.

"Hey Price, that guy that they killed last night sent a word of thanks back to you. Told the chaplain to thank you. He really enjoyed that," he remembered someone telling him. "Well that blew me away."

Since leaving prison, Price and his wife Nita opened the Way Station Café and wrote a book about his experience, "Meals To Die For."

"That old saying, 'What would Jesus do?' I believe this is just what he would do. Justice is being rendered; let's not take it any further than that. A last meal requested by a condemned person, why not?" he told MyFoxHouston.